Car-frame.



E. A. NIX & J. J. BOWLING.

' GAR FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED APR.12, 1918 1,1 19,714. Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PA QWEE EDWARD A; NIX AND JOHN J. BOWLING, on NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNORS.

OF ONE-THIRD TO E. C. CALKINS, OF THE PARISH OF ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. I

CAR-FRAME.

Application filed Apri1 12, 1913. Serial No. 760,791.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, EDWARD A. NIX and JOHN J. DOWLING, citizens of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CanFrames, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to car frames.

Doors of refrigerator and other cars are frequently left swinging with the result that, they strike against some projectionand are torn off, oftentimes, if not always, tearing loose the post to which the doors are swung. It is at great trouble and expense that the doors and their posts are replaced. Sometimes when the doors alone are' torn away from the posts the posts are loosened and it is expensive and sometimes impossible to fasten the posts securely again. It is essential that the posts support the doors firmly, as it is necessary, especially in freight cars, to provide air tight joints. The doors are usually forced together with sufii-- cient pressure to make the packing aroundthem form air tight joints. If for any reason a door is so loose and it may be loose because of looseness of the posts, air tight joints are not formed and refrigerator cars under such conditions are useless for the purpose for which they are employed.

It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide supplemental posts for the hanging of the swinging doors and arrange them independent of the bracing beams and ordinary connecting posts of the framework so that in the event of loosening of the posts to which the doors are swung the loosened posts may be readily replaced without interfering with the posts commonly employed to connect the upper and lower sills of the frame work.

Another object resides in the provision of means for hanging the doors of refrigerator or other cars in such a manner that if the posts to which the doors are hinged or otherwise connected all become torn away from the frame the usual connecting posts between the upper and lower sills would not be injured or otherwise disturbed as regards theirpermanent connection between the upper and lower sills or beams or other parts of the framework.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a ver- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented De... 1, 1914.

tical transverse sectional View. Fig-3 is a horizontal sectional view. i

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings. the reference characters'5 and6 indicate the upper and lower work which are connected by the end posts 7 and 8 and by the intermediate posts 9 and 10, the character 11 indicating braces for the framework. I i g It has been the custom heretofore t0 hing edly connect the doors12fand13 to the posts 9 and 10 respectively. 'In' the present instance-the posts 9 and 10 are spaced apart a distance slightly greater than heretofore and connecting them slightly below the top beam 5 of the framework is a strip 14: which forms the head of the door opening 15 and between this strip 14: v and the beam 5 is preferably disposed a block 15.

Secured by means of bolts 16 or otherwise in the corners of the vdoor opening 15 are metallic or other flanged sockets 17 adapted to receive the ends of the supplemental door posts 18 and 19, the sockets being open on their outer sides to permit the ready insertionorwithdrawal of these supplemental posts from the sockets. If the fastenings 16 for securing the sockets in place have their heads not countersunk in the sockets, the ends of the supplemental posts 18 and 19 may be grooved as at 20 and in any event the the supplemental posts 18 and 19, and also the strip 14 are preferably connected rigidly one to another and rigidly connected to the upper and lower sills 5 and 6. The supple- 100 mental posts 18 and 19 are loosely mounted in the vsockets. We retain these supplemental posts 18 and 19 normallyin their sockets by means of sheathing 22'which is nailed over the frame of the car to form the 1-05 outside thereof. If the doors for any reason be pulled ofi of their mountings and the false posts are pulled loose or entirely out I of their sockets, the car may be readily repaired by removing the sheathing 22 on the, 110

beamsor sillsv of the side of a car framebraces and the posts, with the exception of outer side 01" the frame work and replacing the supplemental posts at comparatively little expense illldWltll little loss of time and without in any way damaging the framework of the car. It is preferred that packing material 23 be placed between the fixed posts 9 and 10 and the removable. or supplemental posts 18 and 19 for the purpose of providing air tight joints.

l'V hat is claimed is:

A frame work for cars including a door frame and its opening, sockets permanently mounted in the corners of the door opening of said frame, each socket at its front opening laterally outwardly and having a guide flange at its outer edge and a stop flange at its rearside, posts having their ends removably fitted in said sockets, and guided into the latter by said guide flange and limited in inward movement by said stop flange, whereby the opposite ends of the posts may be fitted in cooperating sockets simultaneously \Vitnesses to signature of Edward A. Nix:

C. D. THOMAS, Gro. L. OGoNNoR.

Witnesses to signature of John J. Dowling: c

CHESTER W. BROWN, Com M. Knoosz.

Copies of this patent maybe obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

